A young man's connection with a circle-drawing, perceptive young woman.

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How Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr., an openly gay hedge fund star, came to marry Ellen Pao, a partner at a powerful Silicon Valley firm, before they “went to war with their elite worlds.”

“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”

Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer — leaving many residents with no water at all.

Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.

On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.

Our entire way of life depends upon the “cold chain,” the network of artificially refrigerated spaces that have reshaped the modern world.

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

Life in Nucla, Colorado.

The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.

The Runaways, their manager Kim Fowley, and the rape of the band’s bassist, long kept a secret.

How an alcoholic doctor simultaneously saved his own life and made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century.

How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.

For years, it was the largest portal for sex on the internet. Now its fate could shape the future of Silicon Valley.

The story of a lifelong addict and an unlikely friendship.

Can the king of ultrarunning conquer a race as short as the marathon?

On the racially motivated destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood district.

How a sexual assault case in Idaho involving refugee children morphed into an anti-refugee frenzy.

He has worked for Apple, Google, AOL, the Rainbow Room. He hangs out with Steve Case, Gordon Ramsey, Tim Armstrong. He's a world-class surfer, a AAA baseball legend, the founder of a seminal punk band. He's one of the more persistent and obsessive grifters to ply the streets of New York City—not to mention online dating sites—in recent decades.

Without fanfare—indeed, with some misgivings about its new status—China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy.

On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.

An oral history of the Tinderverse.

On the crash of Air France Flight 447.

The story of rivers and relationships.